I would try write.csv or write.table with row.names = FALSE - just a guess,
and do follow up on R-Sig-Geo if need be.

Cheers, Mike

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Kerry wrote:

> I appreciate the help and suggestions.  I was afraid that this question
> would be considered "off topic", but thought I would give it a try to see
> if anyone else gets these results from R output files.  As I do not know
> what a hex editor or hexbin are I guess I will not be able to continue this
> discussion here.  I will take Duncan's suggestion and try R-Geo?
>
> ~K
>
>
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> Your description of diagnosis uses non-R software (off topic here). Please
> either describe the difference in the files (you may need a hex editor or
> the hexbin package to detect the differences) or supply the files that
> behave differently (this may require some alternate route than this mailing
> list if there are odd characters at fault).
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> For what it is worth, TXT is not a clearly-defined format, so this could
> be more effectively addressed by using a more specific format for data
> exchange.
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